bemusedYou take up another one, of course. And you then spend a considerable part of several days (days when you should be writing your
ncis_ficathon or your ncis_bigbang story) toddling around LJ looking at the nice shiny comms and tables.But the big problem is that so many of the nice looking ones seem to have been abandoned. When you look at the sign-up posts and find claims going back a year or even longer and they haven't been acknowledged, it makes me sad. I know people have reasons for giving up and moving on and dropping out, but all too often the people haven't done any of those things, they are still active on their own journals.
I know the challenge table I've just completed is in fact now a 'dead' challenge comm. Not only have the Mods stopped acknowledging claims, but I'm the only person to have posted in months. Still, I started the challenge and I have the good feeling of having completed it.
So after much looking around and trying to find a challenge I liked the look of and wasn't dead, I decided 'what the heck . . .' and I'm sure many of you will know what that means, don't you? (*Eyes
aingeal8c in particular*). Yes, I set up another new challenge comm - hey, at least mine don't die!It's
24_times and it follows the same 'rules', etc. as all my other Nikki-set-up-challenge-comms. No 'thou shalt post one story every . . .' No 'only one person can claim the same pairing'. Nope, none of that. Plain and simple, if you like the prompts, sign up - there's no pressure on you at all. There are three tables from which you can choose and you can even make your own by combining eight prompts from each of the three tables.Why 24 stories? Well, there are 24 hours in the day and these 24 prompts all deal with time.
I think I've tested all the links and checked the tables, read the blurb a dozen times to make sure it makes sense, but you know how these things are; you get to the stage when you're 'link bound' or reading what you think is there. So if anyone sees anything hinky/something doesn't make sense, please yodle.
Anyway, so there we have it:
24_timesNikki's latest 'baby'.
